Thank you Mr. Jones for providing another report on this, after your previous one in February. Most people do not understand how big K-pop really is. Fans from all around the world follow K-pop with intense interest. Many (including myself) stay up all night to watch Korean music shows on Korean TV so that we can support our favourite group. I wish you had also touched upon the intense racists attack which has been unleashed against Girls’ generation after they won specially from US. Their Youtube page is filled with so called fans of 1 Direction, Justin B, Taylor Swift etc and other ignorant racists spouting pure hatred including all kinds of derogatory remarks based on their Asian looks and gender. One thing they fail to understand is K-pop fans are much involved in supporting the K-pop groups and are more unified than any of the other groups. Also conveniently they ignore the fact that this voting was purely by the fans. These fans are just bringing a bad name to the artists they claim to support.

11:52 am November 25, 2013

Ruxi wrote:

It's not just East Asia. In the past decade, K-pop idol bands have gathered more international fans. When the time comes to vote online (like for the YouTube awards) it won't only be the East Asian fans that vote, but fans from all over the globe. It's why these bands have started touring Europe, South America and the States (Infinite was in the US just last week).

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